I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

When I say nothing, I say everything

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.